Teaching & outreach

Tutorials

Tutorials and courses presented by ielab members at international conferences and summer schools.

CHI2019

Building Economic Models of HCI

Course on building economic models of how people interact with interfaces and systems.

SIGIR2019

Building Economic Models and Measures of Search

Material for the Building Economic Models and Measures of Search tutorial at SIGIR 2019

SIGIR2025

Efficient In-Memory Inverted Indexes - Theory and Practice

A hands-on tutorial for efficient inverted index-based search using the PISA engine.

SIGIR2017

Elastic4IR

Tutorial and resources for using Elastic for information retrieval experiments. The tutorial was designed for the SIGIR 2017 Lucene for Information Access and Retrieval Research (LIARR).

SIGIR2018RUSSIR2018AFIRM2018WSDM2019

Health Search Tutorial

Tutorials and resources on health information retrieval problems, methods and resources, covering aspects from clinicians to consumers.

AFIRM2019

IR in Practice

Material about using Elasticsearch for information retrieval experiments, presented at the 2019 ACM SIGIR/SIGKDD Africa Summer School on Machine Learning for Data Mining and Search.

SIGIR2025

Retrieval and Ranking with LLMs

Generative Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT, Gemini, and Llama are transforming Information Retrieval, enabling new and more effective approaches to document retrieval and ranking. The switch from the previous generation pre-trained language models bac...

CHIIR 2021

ACM CHIIR UMMMS 2021

Material for the User Models, Metrics and Measures of Search, Tutorial on the CWL Evaluation Framework; ACM CHIIR UMMMS 2021